Nemesis Prime (Armada)
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- Nemesis Prime is a Unicron-affiliated Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Nemesis Prime is a monstrous Transformer sent to kill Autobot and Decepticon alike. He scanned the minds of the Transformers and took the form of Optimus Prime, as he was the most powerful and respected in all their minds. As a duplicate of Optimus Prime, Nemesis has all of Prime's strength and power, in addition to his own ability to reconstruct himself.
Nemesis Prime wields the Vorpal Saber, a twisted clone of the Star Saber, and has a Mini-Con partner named Run-Over.
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Fiction
Cartoon continuity
Linkage
Nemesis Prime was granted the Doomstone and was sent to ravage, devastate and destroy any world he came across, accompanied by Run-Over and the Aerial Extermination Mini-Con Team. The death-agonies and negative psychic energies of the beings he destroyed were stored inside the Doomstone, which was at some point taken from him and later transferred into Ravenus. Linkage Part 11
Armada cartoon
- Voice actor: Paul Dobson (English), Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese), Pekka Lehtosaari (Finnish), Juan Guzmán (Latin-American Spanish), Anders Byström (Swedish)
Nemesis Prime was encountered by a party of Transformers on a strange planet composed of salt and technorganic materials, after they fell into a worm hole that had taken shape due to Unicron's lack of a physical body. Nemesis Prime was a Unicron-created being that was very savage and feral in nature, using his Vorpal Saber nearly to destroy several of the Autobots and Decepticons. Although he was beastly and insane, his exact motives and personality were unknown, as he was simply a puppet of Sideways. Nemesis Prime was eventually destroyed by a combined blast from Galvatron using the Requiem Blaster and Optimus Prime using his new Overload power unit. Sideways was seen fleeing the scene in trans-phase mode, while Nemesis Prime's remains were scattered about the area. Mysteriously, the planet immediately began to break down and was destroyed afterwards. Puppet
Ask Sideways
After hijacking Vector Prime's Axiom Nexus News column, known liar Sideways agreed that Nemesis Primes and Grand Scourge were the same being. Ask Sideways, 2015/06/28
Games
Transformers: Battle Tactics
Nemesis Prime Armada participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who first appeared in the "Armada: Episode IV: Land Military Team" event, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics
Toys
Armada
- Nemesis Prime with Run-Over (Super-Con, 2003)
- Part of the eighth and final wave of Hasbro's Armada Super-Cons, Nemesis Prime is a redeco of the Super-Con Optimus Prime toy, transforming into a longnosed truck cab of made-up model. In truck mode, his trailer hitch allows him to pull the various trailers available to the Super Base Optimus Prime mold. Plugging a Mini-Con onto the Powerlinx plug on his robot mode back unlocks a "punching" action that moves his arms back and forth when the plugged-in Mini-Con is pushed up and down. While his arm-mounted exhaust pipes can be easily removed, there's not really anything you can do with them, as they cannot combine into a handgun like the Super Base Optimus's arm-pipes.
- He came with his Mini-Con partner Run-Over, who can also become a handgun Nemesis Prime (or any toy with 5 mm post-compatible points) can hold.
- In Japan, he was only available as a mail-away item from TV Magazine (limited to 5000 pieces) under the name Scourge, a nod to Hasbro's Robots in Disguise Scourge. There are a number of small but significant differences between Hasbro and Takara's versions of the toys; the Hasbro version is cast in midnight-blue and sandy-tan plastics, where the Takara version is more brownish-black and neutral light gray. (Scourge's Mini-Con, "Sweep", shares the change in plastic colors.) The Takara version also appears to have a smaller number of paint applications with less color variety.
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Notes
- In Legends of the Microns, Nemesis Prime never actually speaks, only roaring the whole time.
- According to Joe Kyde, he created Armada Nemesis Prime at the half-serious suggestion of Aaron Archer. The unfinished deco sheet somehow made it to Dreamwave Productions, who prominently featured him on a pull-out poster included with the (nearly-chart-topping) fifth issue of their first G1 miniseries—leading the Hasbro team to actually produce the figure. Kyde's preliminary deco served as the starting point for Takara's, while the Hasbro version ended up being produced independently.[1]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Scourge (スカージ Sukāji)
- Hungarian: Nemezisz Prájm
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "For what it's worth, Armada Nemesis Prime was created as an accident. Aaron Archer asked Joe Kyde to try slapping RID Scourge's colors on Armada Optimus Prime as a lark. Kyde only got about halfway through it but sent it in anyway (since it wasn't intended to be used for anything). But somehow this half-finished "Armada Scourge" deco sheet made its way to Dreamwave alongside all the other Hasbro ref they were sent, and they prominently included him on the Armada pull-out posters included with their first G1 miniseries. Which were the top-selling comics in North America in the months they came out. / So suddenly: oops, I guess we have to make a black Armada Optimus Prime now. / [I heard this] Mostly from Kyde. Which is why he's credited as the deco artist for Micron Legend Scourge (because Takara used his unfinished deco sheet as their starting point) and not Nemesis Prime (because someone else took the idea and finalized it in their own way, but I don't know who). / This did all happen early enough in development that they were able to jam Scourge/Nemesis into the Armada cartoon, but it's why he only shows up for one episode."—Matthew Karpowich, the TFWiki Discord server, 2023/01/30
